Friday, February 14, 2014
During the assigned readings, in essay 20, A sentence that really caught my attention and made me think was a statement found on page 189, "We don't know how many species we are eliminating, because we don't know how many species there are." This really stuck out to me because it's crazy to think that we don't know how many species there are, and that through all our destruction of the world and different environments, we can be killing off numerous species and not even realizing it. That's horrible. I would rather reduce the things we destroy in the environment than have a surplus of things that I don't really need. Is that possible though? Can we really control our numbers in a way that causes less destruction of the environment?
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What we don't know about the biosphere and how it works could fill volumes. Normally it's fallacious to use ignorance as a reason for drawing some conclusion, but in this case we know enough about the world, and how significant some of the things we don't know are likely to be, that we can in fact infer a potent precautionary principle from this particular ignorance.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Matt. I believe that since we can not possibly know about every single species of every single type of creature on this Earth, we should become more aware of the specimens we do know about and be conscious of our impact to the nature around us.
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